Coronavirus pandemic: How will Hollywood TV, movie production restart?

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- During the novel coronavirus pandemic, studio lots have become ghost towns at a time when broadcast networks would typically be wrapping up pilot season. Now leaders in the entertainment industry are trying to figure out a plan to reopen Hollywood.

"We're likely to start with smaller productions because it would make sense. There's fewer people on set, it's easier to socially distance," Bryn Sandberg of the Hollywood Reporter said.

An estimated 700,000 jobs and 5,000 small businesses are directly dependent on the entertainment industry.

Many of those jobs will be brought back slowly, minimizing the amount of people on set at one time.